Machine learning spotlight, Vanderbuilt U’s medical robots, and more open source news In this week’s edition of our open source news roundup, we take a look at machine learning, Vanderbuilt University’s medical technology, journalism mapping tools, and more. Open source news for your reading pleasure. November 7 — 14, 2015 Machine Learning in the spotlight Machine learning platforms were in the news a lot last week. First up, Google. The tech giant released the code for its TensorFlow artificial intelligence system with the goal to guide the evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Google’s Jason Freidenfelds says the company “aims to make the software it built to develop and run its own AI systems a part of the standard toolset used by researchers.” According to The Conversation, making TensorFlow open source…